• "no" banana
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    6 days ago

    The difference between 1 million and 1 billion is roughly 1 billion.

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      6 days ago

      No. It’s a thousand. Which is closer to zero than a billion.

      Edit: You’re talking absolute values so the difference is 999 million.

      While I was talking ratios hence the ratio being 1:1000. My bad.

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        It’s the best way I’ve found to illustrate to regular people how fucking massive the wealth accumulation is.

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          5 days ago

          If you count 1 number per second it takes TWO WEEKS to count to a million.

          However, it would take 33 YEARS to count to 1 billion.

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        lol. I think your post shows just how hard it is to fathom a billion better than any numbers could.

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